Dorothea Lasky is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Shining (2023) and MOTHER (2026). She is also the author of the prose book Animal (2019) and a future book about Sappho, as well as the editor of Essays (2023) and a coeditor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (2013). Her first novel, Katie, is forthcoming. Her writing has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and The Paris Review, among other places.